"broaden the gap" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to make a difference or division between two things or groups even larger or more significant. Example: The new tax policy will only serve to broaden the gap between the rich and the poor, as the wealthy will receive more benefits while the lower income earners will struggle even more.
Understanding the processes that broaden the gap between the wealthy and the poor is a concern for social scientists and policymakers worldwide1.
PDMK structure is thus modified to broaden the gap between these two temperatures: for the first time, a dimethylketene/ethylketene random copolymer and a star-shaped polydimethylketene are targeted by cationic polymerization.
Our behavior can either bring us closer or broaden the gap; this includes all relationships, but especially those with our adult children and their own families.
The report's authors argue that in the wake of the 2005 storm, reconstruction efforts were handled in such a way as to broaden the gap between whites and minorities in the region, and to make it harder for local people of color to find jobs.
Meanwhile, intelligent design appeared incapable of generating a scientific research program, which inevitably broadened the gap between it and the established norms of science.
More importantly, history shows that, without government intervention, the new treatments produced from medical research are often available only to those who can pay, broadening the gap between rich (who can afford top-shelf care) and poor (who receive little).
However, the significant progress of production technology frontier consequently broadened the gap of technology efficiency between the frontier technology and the actual output.
Further broadening the gap is the fact that, on average, women at Stanford take their first CS class later than their male counterparts, often because they come to Stanford with less CS experience from their secondary schooling.
For the past year and half, Greece has been plunged into a deeper and deeper unprecedented recession broadening the gap between the rich and poor people, boosting poverty in the society and shrinking the prospects of growth which is a precondition for the economy getting out of the crisis.
This model was not further developed due to the arduous task of dealing with the experimental procedures, and in our hands, sometimes the tumour expands into the peritoneal area broadening the gap between the model and the human pathology.
A bulldozer broadened the gaps.
